Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Cerefice

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

Sammy Teel

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.

David McIntosh

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

Amy Domini

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

Leonard Asper

There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.

John Battelle

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

Tomi Taterka

When you think in dollar terms, there are plenty of cheap assets out there to be bought, and that's exactly what's happening.

Mark Cuban

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

William Wilkinson

We are talking about assets that in some cases were purchased a decade before the fund existed. If the attorney general could prove those assets were purchased with coin-fund assets, it would be a miracle in the courtroom.

Mark Billingham

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Ashwin Sanghi

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

Simon Langford

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Julianne Moore

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

Gretchen Rubin

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Eric Lander

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

Jim Jones

This proposed rule contains some of the strongest protections for human subjects ever proposed by the federal government.

Kenneth Branagh

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Calista Flockhart

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Charlie Munger

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Jose Ferreira

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Tracey Schmitt

newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign.

Dan Harmon

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

David Spear

So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.

Richard Bove

This event highlights, once again, the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Loic Fauchon

We want man to once more become a friend of water, so let's hurry up, as there is extreme urgency.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Elliott Abrams

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Jeff Bradybaugh

We've been doing this for 20 to 25 years and climbers know there are many other alternatives. We've modified the closures over the years to accommodate the birds. They may use one nest one year and another nest the next year, but it's all in the same territory.

Tom Attanasi

The State system seems perfect for him. We run a modified Princeton offense and he will do some of the same things at State that he has done here.

Pat Gracey

They're used to each other because they played together on modified and they're comfortable with each other.

Kenneth Miller

The big thing is speed, being modified and interacting and moving things around very fast.

Brad Pitt

I mean, that's the modified self-help version of the psychology, I guess.

W. S. Gilbert

And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!

Tracy Letts

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Bob Dylan

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Benjamin Disraeli

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Trai Byers

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.